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| fife |
a small, high-pitched transverse flute, used mainly to accompany drums in military or marching music. [1/2 definitions] |
| fipple flute |
a recorder or other vertical flute that has a slitted wedgelike plug, or fipple, in the mouthpiece. |
| flageolet |
a small vertical flute with a fipple, four finger holes, and two thumb holes. [2 definitions] |
| flautist |
one who plays the flute; flutist. |
| flute |
to play a flute. [2/8 definitions] |
| fluting |
the act of playing on or the sound made by a flute. [1/3 definitions] |
| flutist |
a person who plays the flute, esp. professionally. |
| piccolo |
a small flute with a pitch that is an octave higher than that of the standard flute. |
| stop |
in music, any device or movement, such as a flute hole or a pressing down of a violin string, that causes an instrument to produce a particular note. [1/18 definitions] |
| tootle |
to toot lightly and repeatedly on a flute or horn. [1/2 definitions] |
| wind instrument |
a musical instrument, such as the flute, trumpet, or clarinet, that is sounded by the force of air blown into it. |
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